Chords for Magnifier Interview: Merle Haggard

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [E]
Hi, I'm Earl Haggard and you're listening [D] to Google Music.
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[B] Working Man Blues on the new record.
_ There's an appearance of [B] Willie Nelson and an appearance of my youngest [D] son, Benny.
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
He and his mother kept it away from me for a long time and only, _ like he was, he's 18 now,
and when he was 15 they let me hear him _ [F] and I was blown away with it.
I [F#] couldn't believe what I was hearing and _ he's [D#m] been on stage with me [Bm] ever since.
[D] The whole [E] world knows now.
Hand in hand, [A] arm in arm, _ walking down the street.
It's a joy to work with Chris because _ [D] he's got such an incredible mind
[F#] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ and [F#] we don't have to worry about _ [D]
each other, so to [Em] speak.
We can go on stage without [D] a [F] script and [B] pull it off. _ _ _
That's kind of fun.
_ There again, Willie is _ a _ great person to know and to work with
because he has all the _ credibility and everything. _
_ It's great to go to the stage with people [F#] like that.
I know they feel the same thing [B] about me.
[D#] Willie has a new record [F] coming out where _ his son [D] Luke is on [G] a record with him and I.
_ [E] We're the one down south to give him a hand.
[A] Wound up working at Opera Land.
[D] Look at me, working [G] at Tennessee.
We _ [E] both have cradled our children _ [C#] with our music.
_ [D] Look at me, working [F#] at [Em] Tennessee.
_ _ _ [E] _ You know, _
[A] _ _ _ fortunately or unfortunately, we have probably written our [Bm] greatest material.
Our [E] greatest days are probably behind us.
[D] _ Love [A] is always pretty.
Going [Gm] back to my [G] hometown, which was Bakersfield and [D] Oildale and [F#] all that,
is [Bm] _ _ _
_ somewhat of a letdown in a lot of ways.
It's just [B] gone to _ _ the [G] bad part [E] of town.
[C#] _ Where I used to live was the good part of town.
Now _ [G#m] _ it's in shambles and [D] it's not the good part of town anymore.
_ It doesn't really resemble what I [B] grew up in.
It was much [G] smaller.
_ [E] There wasn't any freeways.
There wasn't any interstates.
[F] _
_ _ The [F#] pavement went to the edge [E] of [F] town.
_ _ The only place you can [G] grab that is in some good [E] movie that _ [G] presents it the way it was.
But [B] it's so different. _ _ _
Somebody said that three years ago that _ as a society,
we would collectively learn as much as we did since we had discovered fire
in _ _ the up and coming three years.
Well, the three [E] years is over, so _
[A#] _ _ _ we're quite a society [G] with our quickness.
_ [F#] _ All of that has [E] taken its toll on old [D] things like Oildale and Bakersfield.
Love is [F#] always pretty.
I [Bm] was astounded that I was [E] recognized by the people that you [D] mentioned
at [B] the Kennedy Arts Center Awards.
_ [A] _ _ [F#] Hobnob [B] and Elbow would hang around with _ [G] Oprah Winfrey [F] and the President [B] of the United States.
_ It was just _ _ overwhelming to find yourself in that company. _
_ _ _ You've got to pinch yourself.
Is this really happening?
Did they really call my name?
_ [A] But it is.
It was [D] overwhelming. _ _ _ _
[F#] _ My heroes [Bm] inspire me every night.
They come to me [F#] on stage when I [A] need something.
_ _ [Em] If I don't have [F#] something of my own [G#m] original [A] to present,
_ _ [B] I borrow [Bm] from one of my heroes. _
[F#] _ _ Of course, [Bm] they're so old and everything,
and people don't know what I'm doing, and it [D] works. _ _ _
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